EARLY MEDIEVAL HOOKED TAG

720

Incomplete Middle Saxon to Late Saxon sheet copper alloy hooked tag, both pierced attachment lobes partly missing. The oval plate is decorated with three vertical lines of tight rocker-arm engraving. Very similar to a larger example from Suffolk (SF-084921; Read 2008, no. 121). One other from that county has been recorded (SF-CED897). Another example was found in an unstratified context at Middle Harling, Norfolk (Margeson, S. in Rogerson 1995, 56, fig. 39, no. 47). Length 18.7mm. Width 6.8mm. Read 2008, Class D, Type 3. c.720 - c.1100.No. 12 on annotated map in file.